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Compound for Removing Grease and Stains. (open access)

Compound for Removing Grease and Stains.

Patent for a compound to remove grease and stains from wood and fabric. Includes instructions.
Date: August 21, 1891
Creator: Cox, George S. & Lewis, Georgia M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest (open access)

The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest

This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mount Pleasant 1896 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mount Pleasant 1891 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mount Pleasant 1896 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mount Pleasant 1891 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mount Pleasant in Titus County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screen for Vehicles (open access)

Screen for Vehicles

Patent for an improvement in screens meant to prevent passengers from having to look at horses' hind ends in carriages. It is a rectangle of cloth laced in a frame, which is attached to the thills.
Date: May 19, 1896
Creator: Fleming, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, durable, and effect ive in operation, and which may be easily manipulated" (lines 11-14).
Date: March 11, 1890
Creator: Porter, William Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History